Jer 2:22

"For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, Yet your iniquity is marked before Me," says the Lord GOD." Jer 2:22

Pilate had it. Lady MacBeth had it. We all have it. What is it? . . .A great desire to be clean, pure. Remember Pilate? After he had allowed the Jews to condemn Jesus to the cross, he called for a pitcher of water and a bowl. Filling the bowl, he ceremonially washed his hands of the whole affair saying "His blood be upon your hands." It didn't work. Lady MacBeth tried to clean her hands of . . . what was it? Murder? She went around washing her hands crying "Out, out wretched spot!" That didn't work either.

We do many things to cleanse ourselves. Some of us take showers several times a day. Others consume themselves in doing "good works." Still others lock themselves up in a self-made monastery seeking God. All of these things fail because they have failed to tap the only way to be clean -- the Blood of Jesus.

No matter what we do or say it is not enough. Our imperfection prevents us from being clean - and it's a deep down dirt that will not be washed away easily. If you want to be clean, really
clean, let God apply the Blood of Jesus to you every day. It does wonders on the toughest stains to cleans them white as snow. Amen and Amen.